Best Movie Shot on Location Miami 2008 - Pencil Fighting: The Life and Times of Team Balderdash

What do a professor, a surgeon, an apocalypse, and Hollywood have in common? Not much. Oh, except for the fact that united, as one inpenetrable force, they made up Team Balderdash, the greatest (and most supercoolest) group of middle school pencil fighters, like, ever.

Pencil Fighting: The Life and Times of Team Balderdash is a clever mockumentary about four pencil-pounding pals, Jackson (nicknamed The Professor), Phillip (The Surgeon), Cornelius (Apocalypse), and Maxwell (Hollywood), who fall apart when Maxwell becomes "tainted by the one thing that'll blind a man enough to do the stupidest of things: love." Yup, puppy love. And in order to preserve the circle-yes-or-no-if-you-like-me prepubescent brand of feelings exchanged between himself and a young lady named Marilyn, Maxwell duels a Husky pencil with his standard No. 2 and loses with a single lick. The rest of the tale unfolds 15 years down the road, when the surviving members of Team Balderdash reunite for one last shot at glory.

Although bigger-budget films have dazzled audiences with glitzy images of South Beach, Pencil Fighting stays true to its 305 roots, shooting, for the most part, in a Miami Lakes playground, a warehouse near Tamiami Airport, and at the filmmakers' Coconut Grove digs, Gold Dickenson Productions. Winner of Best Short Film at both the Orlando Film Festival and the Miami Underground Film Festival, it's showing for free on MySpaceTV at vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=21666289.

But be warned: Drinking milk while viewing may result in it flying out your nose.

Congratulations to the Balderdash team and everyone who was part of the Film production.I am the mother of Jonathan Aguiar who was part of the Pencil fighting film production and I enjoyed every minute of the filming at Miami Lakes playground.My son loves to act and he is very happy about this award.Thank you to the Production for giving Jonathan the oportunity to be part of it.Sicerely,Jessica Aguiar

To say I am surprised by yet another recognition of your talent would simply be a lie. The world is just beginning to experience the talent that I saw in you the moment we met. You know I wish you only the best and know that your Oscar moment is only a matter of time!

We got to see it twice. And both experiences were equally beautiful. We didn�t have a clue that the film was going to win so many awards as it did. The best part was sitting on the couch with two film directors exposing the reel before it was released. When we heard our tracks playing in the film, it was amazing, something we truly enjoyed throughout the course of us being a band. The second time we seen the film was at Churchill�s Pub in Miami. On May 15th, 2008 - Functional Interiors throws an explosion of Miami talent, from artist to comedians - the pub never looked more choice. In a full house we played live - only to see Pencil Fighting: The Life and Times of Team Balderdash being viewed in the center of the room. Everyone loved it. I don�t think I have ever seen any movie play in the show area of Churchill�s, only this one. It felt like we were in a theatre. The night ended very sweet. We thank you Fro and Andy.The Tunes and Tones

Every time these classy guys put their imaginations to work they create magical films. Team Balderdash took us MIA'ers back to our pre-husky days and made us all laugh. I can't wait to be entertained again from their many upcoming hits. Thanks for being Gold!

Fro excellent film.....You make us proud..........I am delighted and honored to be educated and exposed by you to such talent and also to your industry.............please keep me in your followings...............regards